Silence (1931 film)

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| name = Silence

| image = File:Silence (1931 film).jpg

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| caption =

| director = Louis J. Gasnier
Max Marcin

| producer =

| screenplay = Max Marcin (play and screenplay)

| starring = Clive Brook
Marjorie Rambeau
Peggy Shannon
Charles Starrett
Willard Robertson
John Wray
Frank Sheridan

| music =

| cinematography = Charles Rosher

| editing =

| studio = Paramount Pictures

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1931|8|29}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English}}

Silence is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Max Marcin and written by Max Marcin, adapted from his play. The film stars Clive Brook, Marjorie Rambeau, Peggy Shannon, Charles Starrett, Willard Robertson, John Wray and Frank Sheridan. It was released on August 29, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.{{cite web|last=Hall|first=Mordaunt|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B04E0DD143BEE32A25756C1A96E9C946094D6CF|title=Movie Review - Bad Girl - THE SCREEN; An East Side Idyl. His One Good Deed. A Story of the Track. All Is Not Gold.|work=NYTimes.com|date=August 15, 1931|access-date=February 20, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90115/silence|title=Silence (1931) - Overview|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=February 20, 2015}}

Plot

A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.